I've been using it for some time now, and it look stable enough for me to publish it online.

What does it do? You see all your favorite you've been getting? Well, this software save them for you on your disk. Just put your username, or any other deviant username, and it will download all the favorite to your machine.

Very convenient to keep an offline copy of all the arts you love. You can even use the downloaded file for a slide show, screen saver or wall paper.

Personally, I have a gadget that display the arts taken from the download folder and play them in a small slideshow gadget

It fix a validation issue with Windows 7/Vista when using the default location. Those using their own custom location (c:deviantART for instance) were unaffected.

**** Update ****Version 1.1.0 has been released.

* Added Support for custom searcher. * Added the notion of Document, Images and Video* Added and set as default the RSS searcher. This is a solution for DA pulling the Stream Difi and not offering any support.* Added the ability to download a user gallery rather than only the favorites.* Forced throttling to 5 seconds minimum and applied it to every 20 requests. This is due to the RSS feed not supplying filename and having to do a request to retrieve it.

So yes, you can now download an artist full gallery by setting their username and picking gallery in the preference.

Great tool, thank you! Although I seem to have a problem with downloading collections. My version is 1.2.0. The download path is set like this: F:\Art\My DA collection\%collection%\%filename%. Skip Collections is unchecked. Yet it doesn't create folders for each of my collections, it downloads everything into one folder (My DA collection). I thought maybe it is because all of my favorites are also in Featured. I removed a part of my faves from Featured folder, so that they remained only in their respectful collections. But it still downloaded them into the parent folder, My DA collection. Maybe I am doing something wrong? Thank you.

Just curious how the next update is progressing? re: Higher res pic's only found via the download button.

Right now I am using a semi-automatic process using firefox with Down load them all addon with autohotkey (the semi-part).It works but with limits.

My review of the problem shows me. It's possible to get the high res pic (under the download button). By sending the href link tothe DTA addon. This leads to a possible solution of sending the link to an external downloader, instead of using your internalhget process. At least until you figure it out.

Another possible solution. I would love a right-click context option to click from the gallery view into the artwork. Then send thedownload link to the downloader. If the download link does not exist then send the larger res pic under the smaller pic in view.If the right-click option is available. Then a review before download is possible. Instead of a all or nothing approach.

Hopefully, I'm catching up on my backlog and I should be able to resume working on the utility next week.Since Deviant Art's staff are uncooperative with an API, I'll have to resolve to have people to log in and do some pages crawling.

Hi all I get when I install the program are 2 folders "lib" and "src", a zip file "da-favorite" that won't let me extract anything, a deviantart icon that won't let me open anything, and a README which I'm not fully understanding (I have limited knowledge in this stuff). Can you please help and inform me how to start the program because I can't figure out how

Yes. DA since the original released remove linking to full download image in their feed.Not only that, they've obfuscated the links through at least 2-3 kind of method.I have to figure out that but time have been missing lately.

The JRE should come with the JDK.However, if you skipped the installation of the JRE, it may not have registered the jar extension and you will have to register it manually and reference it to the java executable.

For the moment, you can't select to download a specific collection.However, when you'll start downloading, you'll get all the collections in your favorites.

Go to preference and change the save destination pattern if you want to save the picture somewhere else than your profile.Set your DA username in the username box and make sure the favorite is selected.Since you want your collection, make sure the 'skip collections' ISN'T selected.Hit download and it will download all your favorites, including your collections.

This thing is great and very useful. However their seems to be one folder/Collection of favorites it won't download and every time I try a "internal error" message pops up and it makes a log. The folder/Collection is the Vanellope Von Schweetz favorites collection and I tried a couple of times. It makes a log/report every time I try. The other folders seem to be just fine.

java.lang.RuntimeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 616; columnNumber: 1849; XML document structures must start and end within the same entity. at com.dragoniade.xml.XmlToolkit.parseDocument(XmlToolkit.java:278) at com.dragoniade.deviantart.deviation.SearchRss.search(SearchRss.java:103) at com.dragoniade.deviantart.favorites.FavoritesDownloader.execute(FavoritesDownloader.java:228) at com.dragoniade.deviantart.ui.DownloaderGUI$2$1.run(DownloaderGUI.java:192) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 616; columnNumber: 1849; XML document structures must start and end within the same entity. at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source) at com.dragoniade.xml.XmlToolkit.parseDocument(XmlToolkit.java:276) ... 4 more

Do you want me to send the other reports before this one as well if it might help?

Sorry I took so long to write back but every time I used it I would forget and close immediately the internal error message allowing me to find the folder in my computer that saves the report. I'm running it again to locate the folder but it takes some time to do so waiting for it so I might post it by the day's end.

From process of emilation I have found that this artwork [link] seems to be the corrplt (or part of) causing the problem thus I moved it to a seperate new folder [link] away from the others (and furthermore using it like a personal task stopper from this tool).

While using this amazing tool I did come up with some ideas for upgrades:Having the ability to select what folders/categories you want to download in your favorites or in another person's gallery can help eliminate the wait time unnecessary computer clutter.For example I know I only put in artworks in my "Disney fanart" and "Magical gals" favorite folders yet when I begin the downloading I have to wait till the tool scans and skips all the folders and pictures inside them before and in between them first which is helpful in saving time furthermore if downloading from a another person's gallery if the person has 50 folders and I want only 6 of the folders/categories downloaded being able to select before it starts what folders I want can be very helpful.

Also a option in the options to have it remember and use immediately the answer we clicked when that window pops up when 480 files are skipped so we can leave the room without having to wait for that upcoming message to pop up and stop/halt the process overall in doing so.

It will be on the next version, which will be released sometime this week.I'll be adding category and category folder.The first will put 1 folder per category while the second will keep the structure with multiple folder.ie: C:\anthrofantasysketch\InkServant\mypicture\image.jpg vs: C:\anthro\fantasy\sketch\InkServant\mypicture\image.jpg